Correct because the world is more polluted now. The world was so different 100 years ago. It all adds up one by one to make us sick, the more we avoid pollutants the better.
There is already a great amount of plastic in all of us. Even in remote tribes. What we let corporations do to this beautiful planet and it's inhabitants is unspeakable. And they are still not held accountable because they run the world.
This is true and that’s why there’s more research to do. However there’s studies already done that warn us of a chemical composition from the plastic when exposed to heat (dishwasher and microwave).
Oh please. Robert Kennedy of the incoming Trump administration wants to overhaul this crap and you call him every name in the book. Save your fake outrage
It will be extremely hard for the world to switch to all paper products. Unless you’re growing and making all your own food you still are getting micro plastics in your food. From peanut butter to chicken.
Because studies take time and funding. Please notice, it has taken decades for politicians to pass bills against the most evident pollution - and still there are many whose only view of the future is to drill for oil everywhere. Plastic is made with oil. Do you think that the companies that hid for so long their studies about climate change and lobby to dismantle regulations, we're open for the dangers of plastics to be known?
Probably because the scientists were employed by the plastic companies so conducted "research " that would profit the plastic company. Probably got a bonus for it too.
People knew, just not enough people knew about it, or the campaign or the product use/conveniece overshadowed. My parents knew and educated me, I avoid using plastic as much as possible
Vast right wing conspiracy to rule the world! It’s the media. They are funded by corrupt donors. We need non profit media and agriculture. Trump/Musk baby!
Do what you can, & what feels reasonable to you. I reused yogurt containers for years, folks, but about 4 years ago I started reading the science & made the switch to glass food storage. Not expensive at all, unless you buy some fancy name brand. I ditched the teflon 2 years ago, after saving up to get a cast iron frying pan. Again, very affordable unless you gotta have some high-end brand. I've got an inexpensive filter on my water tap that eliminates lead & other metals. This year I'm buying stainless steel water jugs to replace the plastic ones I've been using to store my water in the fridge. Food prices have got me doing more home-cooked meals too, which is better for my health. I cook enough for 2 or 3 days, which is why glass food storage became important. Small affordable steps, over a few years, because I'm not waiting on the food industry to do the right thing.
You should get a test kit for that filtered water, I guarantee it'll still test positive for chlorine/chloramine, and flouride. No one should be drinking water with fluoride added to it
Don’t refill a water bottle because of microplastics? But it’s ok to drink the water that’s already inside it as long as it’s a freshly purchased one? Definitely doesn’t sound like it’s also a way for them to sell more plastic products that will now definitely only be used once instead of replacing them with something safe.
So in other words this has nothing whatsoever to do with storing food in plastic containers, it’s about heating food in those containers. I imagine the conspiracists and scare-mongers will latch onto this very quickly.
You didn't pay attention. There were several important warnings embedded in the video that were about more than simply heating food in those containers. Did you miss the warning at 1:26 about plain old longterm use & reuse of these containers? Or the warning about the effects of putting even thick plastics in the dishwasher to clean them? (1:31). Or the part at the end, where we're advised to not even reuse single-use plastic water bottles? (2:40) The issue with these plastics clearly goes deeper than simply re-heating food, altho reheating in plastic containers so far appears to create the most significant leaching of contaminants into food. We're in the earliest stages of studying this issue. But preliminary findings seem to indicate contact time, temperature & type of food may all affect transfer rates of microplastics & other chemical contaminants. Wrt contact time, that may mean storage in plastics increases leaching & exposure.
@@tothelighthouse9843why are ‘we’ still only in the early stages of figuring this sh*t out? why are the so-called best and brightest in this country so far behind in everything???
@@sarahbaartmansrevenge Great question, I agree completely! Unfortunately, the answer is always the same: MONEY & GREED. Cutting corners is how a lot of corporations make their wealth. They view ethics & safety as profit-destroyers: look at how big pharma marketed opioids like oxycontin & fentanyl! Corporations have already bought up the best & brightest, offering them insane salaries to ignore public health & safety in the race to bigger profits. And of course corporations throw money at politicians. In exchange for campaign contributions & another 4 years at the trough, politicians do the bidding of their corporate overlords--politicians get rid of 'inconvenient' regulations & oversight, & starve public institutions like the EPA that are there to protect the public. I'm sure the best & brightest in the plastics industries are already designing their public disinformation campaign to undermine the new science that's coming out. Just like big oil & gas rolled out a massive smear campaign to discredit global-warming science.
@@tothelighthouse9843 OP said it is about letting the plastic be exposed to heat, not storing in plastic in the fridge. You didn’t pay attention. The video says reheating in plastic is bad, at 1:26. And washing them in the heat of a dishwasher 1:31. "It’s about heating plastic containers", that part. 2:40 Statement is silly. What, so it’s okay to drink out of a plastic bottle once in the airport, but reusing by filling it a second time is so different and only it is bad? Nonsense. If you need water at the airport and you get it from a plastic water bottle, there is no greater harm from refilling and drinking a 2nd bottle full, while traveling. (But of course, if you have a water non-plastic drink thermos handy, and a beverage for it, use it). OP was correct about people reaching beyond the reheating concerns.
@@GMBoehler why do you need a source?! This has been common knowledge for years. I heard about micro plastics probably close to a decade ago. If an average Joe soap like me knows about it then the government absolutely knows.
"possible", "maybe", "we don't know" , "not concrete evidence", guaranteed we ALL WILL die from something, no one will escape. I choose NOT to live in CONSTANT FEAR from all these fear-mongering entities.
I was at a restaurant dinner with a group of friends. One of the attendees pulled out a container that he had brought from home, and loaded his leftovers into it. I think it was a glass container with a plastic lid with a gasket. I've got those, the brand is snap ware. I think I am going to start doing that, because 90% of the time I take food home. Genius.
Good luck buying peanut butter or mayo in glass jars in grocery stores. Plastic from containers leach into food, water and liquids that you eat. Buy stuff in glass. Save yourself.
Plastic is being found in placentas. There needs to be enough public outcry and consumer withholding before change is made. From potentially contributing to PCOS and behavioral issues, microplastics have been ridiculed for years.
How about the dangers of SELLING items in plastic containers? Or heating them in the plastic containers they come in? Including the paper ones with the plastic film over the top?
@@charlesritter6640 The implication is that single use plastic bottles aren't safe for water. But we can't definitively say that because these are the earliest stages of studying this issue so we lack conclusive research right now. The only thing ABC can say, if they don't want to be sued, is 'don't reuse single use plastics'. Most--but not all--studies show bottled water typically contains more microplastics than tap water. A recent Penn State study found bottled water contains an average of 325 plastic particles per litre, while tap water contains only 5.5.
@@tothelighthouse9843And what did study find about refilling a plastic water bottle at the airport with tap water? (This video concluded by saying a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled, after all). I would believe the plastic particles found in the water from a refilled (with tap water) plastic water bottle would be in between 5.5 and 325 per liter. So, why is the comment at the end that a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled? (Hint: that was OP’s point at 2:45 that refilling being bad was an incorrect conclusion, along with the sensational TITLE of the video saying ‘storing’ food in plastic is bad, when the point is ‘heating’ plastic is bad; transfer to glass to nuke your food).
Plastic is something that has done so much damage around the world. It’s so sad that so many things are made or used with plastic. My siblings and I have been swapping out and replacing. That’s what gets you to realize that it’s everywhere.
I've been eating out of plastic containers for 40 years. My dad is nearly 80 and has been eating out of plastic containers most of his life. I think we're fine. Just another case of the media creating panic over nonsense.
It's not just plastic .. Like James Douglas Morrison said "No one gets out alive." So if you take care of the plastic what else is in your environment that may be taking a toll on your health? That hasn't been reported on?
Older generation especially likes to think these take out containers are reusable and microwave safe and they don’t want to believe it when I tell them no. I’ll be saving this vid to share 😂
nah, older folk remember when there were no microwaves and everything you bought didn't come wrapped in plastic. and those of us with common sense have always known that encasing your food in a container made of crude oil waste products and nuking it can't be a good idea.
This is SO poorly worded, uses fear as its click-bait and squanders time. They keep saying "single use" but the key safety factor is not heating, either with food in it or while washing. Black plastic IS known to contain worse chemicals that heat can release, so not ideal as a spatula in a hot pan, but even then it doesn't release much unless it contacts the hot surface for several minutes. Getting glass containers is great, but using some plastic knowledgeably is okay. And we don't want everyone panicking and throwing all plastic away.
I don’t heat food on ANY food container and I got rid of my microwave so that I do not get tempted. Why is it allowed to continue selling plastic??? Let’s get rid of it!
I kept a chinese food take out container for a few weeks as a tupperware in college. But at the end of those few weeks, even putting food in it for a few minutes would make it taste like straight up plastic. Better to just get glass.
They are literally called single use plastics you’re not supposed to use them multiple times. I know people who keep them and use them and wash them like their regular dishes, but they are single use items. Not meant to be used more than once.
Then why do they show that they are microwave safe and dishwasher safe on the bottoms or are they talking about plastic that does not have those symbols on the bottom? This is crucial information that is not addressed by this snippet and which makes the entire segment worthless.
Never store anything in plastics. I learned this a long time ago when I noticed how the food would leach out on the plastics so I threw out all my plastics (ALL PLASTICS) and only use glass or stainless steel.
Another thing they're not distinguishing is how much microplastic is in our tap water or the source water for what is sold in plastic, versus how much gets into the water from its plastic container (under cool conditions, such as when we merely refill an empty plastic water bottle). Microplastics are everywhere, including in the air we breathe and animal products we eat...
We get this bs for news instead of meaningful coverage of why Mangione did what he did. Cover the reason Mangione killed a CEO. Let's not worry about just the courtroom drama. Let's do indepth coverage of how the people in the nation agree with something from both sides!
So, they got rid of styrofoam containers because it was bad for the environment. But, why did they get rid of the white cardboard containers from the Chinese takeout restaurants? Bring those back ASAP. Our health matters. And bring back glass bottles too! I remember back in the ‘80’s when Snapple beverages were in glass bottles and they tasted better too!
Can't completely avoid as our water air and most soil has micro plastics however we can reduce and fight it. Start with not drinking out of plastic water bottles...
1978, met two engineers working at coca cola at a party. They opened the trunk of their car and announced "free coke for everyone " For the first time we were looking at coke in plastic bottles which had not hit the market yet. No one touched it. The engineer dudes were disappointed. It was earth day.
During childhood, my mother & aunts would save large margarine bowls and maybe other plastic containers that food was purchased in.....These containers were reused for leftovers No microwave in the home
If you do want to use it, I think plastic labelled as number 5 is still safer then those that are labelled as 1. 5 are also microwaveable. Just do your best and use common judgement, don’t overheat, try to microwave in glass or ceramic plates and store in plastic when cold.
That’s why I only use glass to reheat, any plastic containers are to hold snacks or lunch items that don’t require to be reheated and I never put thick reusable plastic in the dishwasher always wash by hand. It’s nearly impossible to avoid plastic or microplastic.
"it's not a good idea to refill your single use plastic water bottle" 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've EVER heard! The plastic is either safe for water or it's not.
Great story, years ago the world used glass containers to store leftovers. Then we found out glass could have broken pieces in containers. Now plastic also has micro plastic so what's next?
I carry 4 empty glass containers in my lunch bag every where I go. my colleague were like "aw you care so much about the environment", well partly that, but I'm just nervous when they put hot food in plastic containers and I later eat it.
At this point, it’s unavoidable, but how bad is it to our health? Every study needs to factor context. Like how a study said sugar replacement sodas could be harmful, and the asterisk is that you need to drink over 30 cans a day over many days for that to be. Hell if you drank that much water every day, you’ll die too.
Not sure if they’re hazardous or not but you still post this on the news. So, if I’m one of the container manufacturers, the motion to file a lawsuit would be Monday morning.
does it matter? we're all gonna die anyways. i've never heard of anyone dying from plastic leftover containers. my grandpa lived to the age of 81 and he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam. you know what got him? smoking cigarettes most of his life.
This issue is pertaining to *single use* containers particularly. We've being using the Tupperware since the days of Jesus. NOW it's an issue. We all are gonna _eid_ some day. Gimme my food, please.
It is absolutely ridiculous that if I drink the last sip of water from a bottle of water and walk over to the tap and start refilling it with water it suddenly and immediately becomes unsafe to drink out of . SMDH
At this point, this stuff is impossible to avoid. The companies are never held accountable tho.
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and happy new year 🎈🎆🎊 my liberal friends across the globe 🌎
They probably have great lobbyists buddying up to the FDA.
Impossible? To avoid??? Hell no! Cook your own food!!! Use iron!
Line the container with parchment paper.. never reheat in plastic
@@AaaaBbbb-mp8wdWith lead contamination and poisons from China. Nothing is made in America anymore so everything is tainted.
I absolutely NEVER microwave anything in any plastic containers, not even defrosting. I only reheat in glass dishes.
Well aren't you fancy
That’s called being
You gonna live waaaaay longer than all the rest
I always do that😅
Or ceramic plate
Literally everything can kill you now. The air, water, food etc
Correct because the world is more polluted now. The world was so different 100 years ago. It all adds up one by one to make us sick, the more we avoid pollutants the better.
Literally
There is already a great amount of plastic in all of us. Even in remote tribes. What we let corporations do to this beautiful planet and it's inhabitants is unspeakable. And they are still not held accountable because they run the world.
The fact that this isn’t an exaggeration is the crazy part. We can’t even drink rain water because of it’s forever chemicals
True even music too. Baby shark doo doo!...
Leftovers in plastic container? Most food in stores are in plastic containers
And vacuum sealed touching every piece of food to the plastic in some cases.
This is true and that’s why there’s more research to do. However there’s studies already done that warn us of a chemical composition from the plastic when exposed to heat (dishwasher and microwave).
We’ve known about this for YEARS. The problem is that our government threw away our health and safety for corporate profits
Yup.
Oh please. Robert Kennedy of the incoming Trump administration wants to overhaul this crap and you call him every name in the book. Save your fake outrage
Yes, this is not news.
RFK Jr. coming, you ain't seen nothing yet. He'll get rid of red #5, but other stuff will likely fly.
It will be extremely hard for the world to switch to all paper products. Unless you’re growing and making all your own food you still are getting micro plastics in your food. From peanut butter to chicken.
Why weren’t they concerned when they first came out 20 years or more ago ??
Because studies take time and funding. Please notice, it has taken decades for politicians to pass bills against the most evident pollution - and still there are many whose only view of the future is to drill for oil everywhere. Plastic is made with oil.
Do you think that the companies that hid for so long their studies about climate change and lobby to dismantle regulations, we're open for the dangers of plastics to be known?
Probably because the scientists were employed by the plastic companies so conducted "research " that would profit the plastic company. Probably got a bonus for it too.
Some complained and where seen as looney toons
People knew, just not enough people knew about it, or the campaign or the product use/conveniece overshadowed. My parents knew and educated me, I avoid using plastic as much as possible
Vast right wing conspiracy to rule the world!
It’s the media. They are funded by corrupt donors.
We need non profit media and agriculture.
Trump/Musk baby!
Do what you can, & what feels reasonable to you.
I reused yogurt containers for years, folks, but about 4 years ago I started reading the science & made the switch to glass food storage. Not expensive at all, unless you buy some fancy name brand.
I ditched the teflon 2 years ago, after saving up to get a cast iron frying pan. Again, very affordable unless you gotta have some high-end brand.
I've got an inexpensive filter on my water tap that eliminates lead & other metals. This year I'm buying stainless steel water jugs to replace the plastic ones I've been using to store my water in the fridge.
Food prices have got me doing more home-cooked meals too, which is better for my health. I cook enough for 2 or 3 days, which is why glass food storage became important.
Small affordable steps, over a few years, because I'm not waiting on the food industry to do the right thing.
You should get a test kit for that filtered water, I guarantee it'll still test positive for chlorine/chloramine, and flouride. No one should be drinking water with fluoride added to it
I’m using granite containers.
My kids HATE them and my wife thinks I’m an idiot.
They work and save the environment 👍
@ghostwalk2446 yeah my water filter company is still working on a add on for fluoride
@@ghostwalk2446wait what . Tell me more about it
1) do not reheat/cook food in plastic containers
2) store food in glass jars
3) avoid buying single use plastic items when you can
Old news but.
What if you only have 20 or so more years and then you die.
I’m 60 so I really don’t care.
You want me to put my chicken and empanadas in glass jars?
@@slyfox2022Pyrex and glass containers exist. Also a jar ain’t that bad.
@@slyfox2022😂😂😂😂
Let's be honest plastic is in our food, water, and air. It's over for us
Yeah it's fucked. Cancer rates are gonna skyrocket I bet if something doesn't turn around
Yes it is,but why add more ?
This is what my ob-gyne told me. It’s everywhere.
@@moxie75plastics are found in umbilical cord blood.
Maybe 'more research should be done' BEFORE allowing these plastic storage containers on the market
They know the harm decades ago, but they don't care about people, only $$$
Agreeeee
Everyone knows profit comes before humans.
Don’t refill a water bottle because of microplastics? But it’s ok to drink the water that’s already inside it as long as it’s a freshly purchased one?
Definitely doesn’t sound like it’s also a way for them to sell more plastic products that will now definitely only be used once instead of replacing them with something safe.
Exactly
why is it that damn near every blender on the market is now made of plastic? why can’t i find a GLASS blender?!?
Thank you! I have been asking myself this same question for years now.
Does bpa free jar help?
China and Biden!
Out to rule the world!
Probably cause glass breaks and it can cause injury. Too heavy and risky to ship as a product. They wanna probably play it safe
I see people in different countries like India they have stainless steel blenders there
So in other words this has nothing whatsoever to do with storing food in plastic containers, it’s about heating food in those containers. I imagine the conspiracists and scare-mongers will latch onto this very quickly.
You didn't pay attention. There were several important warnings embedded in the video that were about more than simply heating food in those containers.
Did you miss the warning at 1:26 about plain old longterm use & reuse of these containers? Or the warning about the effects of putting even thick plastics in the dishwasher to clean them? (1:31). Or the part at the end, where we're advised to not even reuse single-use plastic water bottles? (2:40)
The issue with these plastics clearly goes deeper than simply re-heating food, altho reheating in plastic containers so far appears to create the most significant leaching of contaminants into food.
We're in the earliest stages of studying this issue. But preliminary findings seem to indicate contact time, temperature & type of food may all affect transfer rates of microplastics & other chemical contaminants. Wrt contact time, that may mean storage in plastics increases leaching & exposure.
Bottom line is just get rid of all plastic containers.
@@tothelighthouse9843why are ‘we’ still only in the early stages of figuring this sh*t out? why are the so-called best and brightest in this country so far behind in everything???
@@sarahbaartmansrevenge Great question, I agree completely!
Unfortunately, the answer is always the same: MONEY & GREED.
Cutting corners is how a lot of corporations make their wealth. They view ethics & safety as profit-destroyers: look at how big pharma marketed opioids like oxycontin & fentanyl!
Corporations have already bought up the best & brightest, offering them insane salaries to ignore public health & safety in the race to bigger profits.
And of course corporations throw money at politicians. In exchange for campaign contributions & another 4 years at the trough, politicians do the bidding of their corporate overlords--politicians get rid of 'inconvenient' regulations & oversight, & starve public institutions like the EPA that are there to protect the public.
I'm sure the best & brightest in the plastics industries are already designing their public disinformation campaign to undermine the new science that's coming out. Just like big oil & gas rolled out a massive smear campaign to discredit global-warming science.
@@tothelighthouse9843 OP said it is about letting the plastic be exposed to heat, not storing in plastic in the fridge. You didn’t pay attention. The video says reheating in plastic is bad, at 1:26. And washing them in the heat of a dishwasher 1:31. "It’s about heating plastic containers", that part.
2:40 Statement is silly. What, so it’s okay to drink out of a plastic bottle once in the airport, but reusing by filling it a second time is so different and only it is bad? Nonsense. If you need water at the airport and you get it from a plastic water bottle, there is no greater harm from refilling and drinking a 2nd bottle full, while traveling. (But of course, if you have a water non-plastic drink thermos handy, and a beverage for it, use it).
OP was correct about people reaching beyond the reheating concerns.
The government has known for years that drinking and eating from plastic was dangerous. No one publicly said a word.
Source(s)?
I said something.
Are you OK?
Go sleep it off buddy 👍
@@guybeingaguy Yeah, that’s what I thought.
@@GMBoehler why do you need a source?! This has been common knowledge for years. I heard about micro plastics probably close to a decade ago. If an average Joe soap like me knows about it then the government absolutely knows.
Wouldn’t microwaving TV dinner style foods packaged in similar plastic containers also be leaking microplastics as well?
Yes.
Yup. But at that point, if you're eating tv dinners do you really care what else you put in your body?
@@creepcraddle Healthy Choice has some lower fat high protein options that score moderate on the Yuka nutritional app.
No.
They were talking about the dangers of reheating in plastic back in the late 80s. People don't listen.
"possible", "maybe", "we don't know" , "not concrete evidence", guaranteed we ALL WILL die from something, no one will escape. I choose NOT to live in CONSTANT FEAR from all these fear-mongering entities.
Now you’re going to come out with this $hit! After the entire planet is damn near plastic?
Many months ago I got rid of plastic storage containers and replaced them with ceramics, stainless steel and glass. 👍🏽
I was at a restaurant dinner with a group of friends. One of the attendees pulled out a container that he had brought from home, and loaded his leftovers into it. I think it was a glass container with a plastic lid with a gasket. I've got those, the brand is snap ware. I think I am going to start doing that, because 90% of the time I take food home. Genius.
Good luck buying peanut butter or mayo in glass jars in grocery stores. Plastic from containers leach into food, water and liquids that you eat. Buy stuff in glass. Save yourself.
Here in Europe, peanut butter is sold in glass jars…
Make your own peanut butter
Teddy peanut butter is still in glass jars but I did see it once as plastic.
The cheap garbage comes in plastic. Smucker's Natural is one of the brands in a glass jar; nothing in the product except peanuts.
@@Chris-yk1mm Smucker's also doesn't taste good, so...
Moral of the story. Don't trust these same companies who give you the toxic plastics in every damn thing we use
Would you prefer single-use wood storage containers?
Plastic is being found in placentas. There needs to be enough public outcry and consumer withholding before change is made. From potentially contributing to PCOS and behavioral issues, microplastics have been ridiculed for years.
How about the dangers of SELLING items in plastic containers? Or heating them in the plastic containers they come in? Including the paper ones with the plastic film over the top?
🤷♀️
Maybe write a thesis?
It looks like only you’re concerned about it.
I like grape Jello and crispy fish sticks .
Go back to everything being glass. Totally recyclable and infinitely recyclable.
Can you imagine the stress you would induce in your life if you actually believed every ‘disaster du jour’ found on the internet?
Took it way too far with not refilling a plastic water bottle. Cut the crap 💀
I almost fell out of my chair laughing at that statement. The bottle is either safe for WATER or it's not, right?
@@charlesritter6640 The implication is that single use plastic bottles aren't safe for water. But we can't definitively say that because these are the earliest stages of studying this issue so we lack conclusive research right now. The only thing ABC can say, if they don't want to be sued, is 'don't reuse single use plastics'.
Most--but not all--studies show bottled water typically contains more microplastics than tap water. A recent Penn State study found bottled water contains an average of 325 plastic particles per litre, while tap water contains only 5.5.
@@tothelighthouse9843And what did study find about refilling a plastic water bottle at the airport with tap water? (This video concluded by saying a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled, after all).
I would believe the plastic particles found in the water from a refilled (with tap water) plastic water bottle would be in between 5.5 and 325 per liter. So, why is the comment at the end that a plastic water bottle at the airport should not be refilled? (Hint: that was OP’s point at 2:45 that refilling being bad was an incorrect conclusion, along with the sensational TITLE of the video saying ‘storing’ food in plastic is bad, when the point is ‘heating’ plastic is bad; transfer to glass to nuke your food).
Quick fix: stop making them.
Plastic is something that has done so much damage around the world. It’s so sad that so many things are made or used with plastic. My siblings and I have been swapping out and replacing. That’s what gets you to realize that it’s everywhere.
I've been eating out of plastic containers for 40 years. My dad is nearly 80 and has been eating out of plastic containers most of his life. I think we're fine. Just another case of the media creating panic over nonsense.
It's not just plastic .. Like James Douglas Morrison said "No one gets out alive." So if you take care of the plastic what else is in your environment that may be taking a toll on your health? That hasn't been reported on?
Older generation especially likes to think these take out containers are reusable and microwave safe and they don’t want to believe it when I tell them no. I’ll be saving this vid to share 😂
Lol I told one of my younger coworkers this years ago, but he didn't want to listen
nah, older folk remember when there were no microwaves and everything you bought didn't come wrapped in plastic. and those of us with common sense have always known that encasing your food in a container made of crude oil waste products and nuking it can't be a good idea.
You are one of those smart young whipper snappers aren’t you?
I’ll bake you a pie and invite the old folks over.
Bless your heart!❤️🙏
This is SO poorly worded, uses fear as its click-bait and squanders time. They keep saying "single use" but the key safety factor is not heating, either with food in it or while washing. Black plastic IS known to contain worse chemicals that heat can release, so not ideal as a spatula in a hot pan, but even then it doesn't release much unless it contacts the hot surface for several minutes. Getting glass containers is great, but using some plastic knowledgeably is okay. And we don't want everyone panicking and throwing all plastic away.
The black plastic study from a few months back also contained a typo that resulted in a massive math error.
People worry about way too many things these days.
Don’t use plastics containers but eat these cancer ridden Oreos and cereal it’s good for you!
That’s not NEW. I already know this about 10 years ago.
Any story based off of a " TikTok user " isn't a good way to add credibility.
Yes. I scrolled quite a bit before finding a comment that resonates. This is clickbait and time filler. No real news value.
That’s why I still use my mother’s Corningware.
I don’t heat food on ANY food container and I got rid of my microwave so that I do not get tempted. Why is it allowed to continue selling plastic??? Let’s get rid of it!
Your whole world is plastic ..it's in your cloths. Want to get rid of plastic????stop using it
Even the things you're told to "recycle" can't be recycled. Such foolishness.
This is true. Have you ever drink a bottle of water and it tastes like plastic?
I kept a chinese food take out container for a few weeks as a tupperware in college. But at the end of those few weeks, even putting food in it for a few minutes would make it taste like straight up plastic. Better to just get glass.
They are literally called single use plastics you’re not supposed to use them multiple times. I know people who keep them and use them and wash them like their regular dishes, but they are single use items. Not meant to be used more than once.
Never reheat in a microwave with your food in plastic container.!
Im pretty sure we went over this already... Like 100 years ago🥱
Then why do they show that they are microwave safe and dishwasher safe on the bottoms or are they talking about plastic that does not have those symbols on the bottom? This is crucial information that is not addressed by this snippet and which makes the entire segment worthless.
Never store anything in plastics. I learned this a long time ago when I noticed how the food would leach out on the plastics so I threw out all my plastics (ALL PLASTICS) and only use glass or stainless steel.
Been doing Tupperware since the 80’s 🤣
Most people need to start with the basics before they consider trying to avoid the nearly impossible.
I always put it on a plate and then heat it up, I don't heat it up in the plastic container.......I bet most people do that.
Let's store food in paper bags or towels. Not. In a perfect world 😂
Another thing they're not distinguishing is how much microplastic is in our tap water or the source water for what is sold in plastic, versus how much gets into the water from its plastic container (under cool conditions, such as when we merely refill an empty plastic water bottle). Microplastics are everywhere, including in the air we breathe and animal products we eat...
Even testicles have microplastics in them today. We are already doomed.
We get this bs for news instead of meaningful coverage of why Mangione did what he did. Cover the reason Mangione killed a CEO. Let's not worry about just the courtroom drama. Let's do indepth coverage of how the people in the nation agree with something from both sides!
Ecen coffee machine is plastic..It's not even steel..
I stopped using a microwave a decade ago. I keep a dinky one for the dog sitter that I set up in the kitchen when she sits.
Can’t be worse than the food quality in this country
So, they got rid of styrofoam containers because it was bad for the environment. But, why did they get rid of the white cardboard containers from the Chinese takeout restaurants? Bring those back ASAP. Our health matters. And bring back glass bottles too! I remember back in the ‘80’s when Snapple beverages were in glass bottles and they tasted better too!
COOK YOUR OWN FOOD MINIONS!!!
Can't completely avoid as our water air and most soil has micro plastics however we can reduce and fight it. Start with not drinking out of plastic water bottles...
Why can't we go back to glass and.just recycle it?
1978, met two engineers working at coca cola at a party. They opened the trunk of their car and announced "free coke for everyone " For the first time we were looking at coke in plastic bottles which had not hit the market yet. No one touched it. The engineer dudes were disappointed. It was earth day.
This is the absolute worst time line. Thank you USDA and FDA and thank you mainstream media for pretending not to know this already.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🙏💯positive thoughts and prayers to all in need GOD BLESS❤
We don't own a microwave.
Do you borrow?
I heard that there is something really unnatural in how a microwave cooks food and is most likely harming everyone. I wouldn't doubt it.
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Always us behind because of influence of big corporations
I’ve known this for years! Never microwave in plastic and even better ditch the microwave and use a pan! I have for years 🙏🏽🌟
Is plastic wrap bad if you cover food with it in the refrigerator?
During childhood, my mother & aunts would save large margarine bowls and maybe other plastic containers that food was purchased in.....These containers were reused for leftovers
No microwave in the home
If you do want to use it, I think plastic labelled as number 5 is still safer then those that are labelled as 1. 5 are also microwaveable. Just do your best and use common judgement, don’t overheat, try to microwave in glass or ceramic plates and store in plastic when cold.
That’s why I only use glass to reheat, any plastic containers are to hold snacks or lunch items that don’t require to be reheated and I never put thick reusable plastic in the dishwasher always wash by hand. It’s nearly impossible to avoid plastic or microplastic.
Interesting I heard about dangers of plastics in the microwave when I was 14. 22 years ago.
What about those foam white boxes?
Styrofoam melts like crazy in a mike.
Don't they got wooden box or paper boxes for stuff now ?
"it's not a good idea to refill your single use plastic water bottle"
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That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've EVER heard!
The plastic is either safe for water or it's not.
Seriously. It's not like the plastic water bottle can count how many times it's been refilled
Great story, years ago the world used glass containers to store leftovers. Then we found out glass could have broken pieces in containers. Now plastic also has micro plastic so what's next?
I carry 4 empty glass containers in my lunch bag every where I go. my colleague were like "aw you care so much about the environment", well partly that, but I'm just nervous when they put hot food in plastic containers and I later eat it.
I dont have the luxury of a sink much less a dishwasher as a trucker.
US Should be responsible for providing non cancerous storage for food per person
Forget the microthings. You shouldn't use single use plastic containers because they turn oil into permanent waste.
Who the hell still microwaves food in plastic containers? That’s so ignorant
At this point, it’s unavoidable, but how bad is it to our health? Every study needs to factor context. Like how a study said sugar replacement sodas could be harmful, and the asterisk is that you need to drink over 30 cans a day over many days for that to be. Hell if you drank that much water every day, you’ll die too.
Who's so ign0rant to heat single use plastic in the microwave?
Some people are cheap and reuse water bottles or the to-go containers they get at restaurants.
Those ignorant enough to use a microwave.
Teenagers…. My boys try to do it and I stop them every time and tell them to use a plate
You don't celebrate holiday. There's nothing special about holiday for it to be called a celebration.
"Our industry priorities MONEY..." There I fixed the quote
Not sure if they’re hazardous or not but you still post this on the news. So, if I’m one of the container manufacturers, the motion to file a lawsuit would be Monday morning.
Weird Al already educated us on this. We have to use aluminum Foil, Foil 😂🤣
* looks at ALL food and beverages in the store *
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In summary, Profit > Plastic.
This spin is confusing. So, the pilot ate food out of a plastic container, which is what led to the.....
"There's evidence," "may be more dangerous," "possibly," "no concrete evidence" So basically, no one knows anything for sure.
does it matter? we're all gonna die anyways. i've never heard of anyone dying from plastic leftover containers. my grandpa lived to the age of 81 and he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam. you know what got him? smoking cigarettes most of his life.
They should just change all their titles to "Dangers of being alive"
I would never heat food in a plastic container. I use glass and ceramic. For a long time.
This issue is pertaining to *single use* containers particularly. We've being using the Tupperware since the days of Jesus. NOW it's an issue. We all are gonna _eid_ some day. Gimme my food, please.
The problem is there's microplastics in the water which gets in the vegetables and meat.
Really??
This is something that I realized could happen since I was a kid...
It's fine. We'll all survive.
You can’t really escape microplastics, all you can do is reduce exposure
It is absolutely ridiculous that if I drink the last sip of water from a bottle of water and walk over to the tap and start refilling it with water it suddenly and immediately becomes unsafe to drink out of .
SMDH
Dam im over here opening up everything everything food contained in plastic